There are between 130,000 and 150,000 Kurdish guest workers from Turkey
in Saudi Arabia (particularly in the construction industry), including
approximately 30,000 "under the influence" of the PKK, which naturally
levies a "revolutionary tax" on them, but also engages in narcotics trafficking
in the Arabian Peninsula, according to local police sources. All told,
trafficking and racketeering allegedly netted the PKK approximately FF20
million in 1993.